Lavinia Woodward, 24, escaped jail after attacking her boyfriend with a bread knife

She has now applied to the Court of Appeal to review her sentence, which was imposed at Oxford Crown Court in September.

A spokesman for the Judicial Communications Office said: “Lavinia Woodward has submitted an application for permission to appeal.

“The next stage is for a single judge to consider the application on paper and if permission is granted it then the substantive appeal will be heard in court before three judges.”

Woodward, a student at the university’s Christ Church college, was to be sentenced earlier this year after admitting unlawful wounding, but the judge gave her four months to prove herself and stay out of trouble.

A court heard Lavinia had been having sex with Cambridge boffin Thomas Fairclough earlier in the evening, before she flipped in a cocaine-fuelled rage, later slashing him with a knife.

A 999 operator could hear screaming as Mr Fairclough said: “I think my girlfriend has taken a lot of drugs.”

Woodward admitted a charge of unlawfully wounding Mr Fairclough on September 30 last year.

The student at Oxford’s Christ Church college had been due to be sentenced earlier this year but the judge gave her four months to prove herself and stay out of trouble.

He said medical student Woodward was an “extraordinary able young lady” — and a spell in jail would ruin her dream of becoming a heart surgeon.

The judge added: “It seems to me that if this was a one-off.”

At the sentencing hearing he added: “I find you were genuinely remorseful following this event, and although it was against your bail conditions you contacted your partner to fully confess your guilt and deep sorrow at what had happened.

“While you are a highly intelligent individual, you had an immaturity which is not commensurate for someone of your age.”

Judge Pringle said Woodward had made a determined effort to rid herself of drug and alcohol addictions.

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